Our ability to transform data into information, and to transform information into knowledge that can be shared, can change the face of work, education, and life. We have increasing capacity to generate or gather, model, represent and retrieve more complex, crossdisciplinary and multi-format data and ideas from new sources and at varying scales. The transformational power of information can only be capitalized upon through knowledge acquisition, classification, utilization and dissemination research, tools and techniques. 

This conference will look at current (and imminent) knowledge creation, acquisition, navigation, correlation, retrieval, management and dissemination practicalities and potentialities, their implementation and impact, and the theories behind the developments.  We will review the processes, technologies and tools, such as rights tracking, interfaces and visualization, search engine design and capabilities, and automated indexing and classification.  We will also look at the appropriate or necessary operational policies, relevant legal issues (laws, legislation and the EU Directive), and possible international and domestic policies and regulations.

The conference will feature five tracks:

• Knowledge Discovery, Capture and Creation:
  Capturing tacit knowledge, data mining and other ways to get knowledge into the system, e.g. capturing the results of collaboration, expert directories.
   
• Classification and Representation:
  Metadata, information visualization, taxonomies, clustering, indexing.
   
• Information Retrieval: 
  Engines, browsing versus searching, navigation, data mining.
   
• Knowledge Dissemination:
  Communication, publishing, push versus pull.
   
• Ethical, Cultural, Social & Behavioral Aspects:
  Information acceptance vs. rejection, behavior modifications, policies and politics, value assessments, corporate and national information cultures, knowledge seeking behavior, training, managing knowledge management.

On Sunday, October 31, we will begin with a plenary session and each Track will feature an overview or keynote session prior to launching into papers and panels.